When you encounter someone you find difficult to understand, you label him/her as 'being irrational' and everything easily makes sense. Kids will be kids. Boys will be boys. Kim Jong Un is a fat dictating king Putin is an evil dictator Trump is an unwitting salesman While we may settle for this kind of easy explanation in daily life, that will not get us far in the road to truthseeking (AKA graudating from grad school). Neither does it give us good dissertation topics. Long story short, we must be extra prudent before dismissing someone as 'irrational.' 'Irrational' may result from either of the two scenarios: 1) one is misguided and misinformed(unintentional) 2) one chooses to look irrational(intentional). Often times, we assume the first scenario and neglect the possibility of the second. For instance, for President Trump, As far as he is promoting a profit-based world order in lieu of a norms-based order, whacko image works. Redesigning trad...